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Jun. 14th, 2017
Police-reported hate crimes, 2015
Jun. 14th, 2017 09:24 am
Hate crimes rose by 5% in Canada in 2015, largely due to an increase in incidents targeting certain religious and ethno-cultural groups, specifically the Muslim population and Arabs or West Asians. For the year, police reported 1,362 criminal incidents that were motivated by hate in Canada, 67 more than the previous year.
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The increase in the Edmonton CMA was driven by more reported hate crime incidents against a race or ethnicity (+25) and against a religion (+17), mainly targeting the Muslim (+8) and Jewish (+7) populations. The number of hate crimes in Montréal was attributable to 33 more reported incidents targeting a religion. Of the additional incidents, 20 of these targeted the Muslim population. In the CMA of Kitchener–Waterloo–Cambridge, counts were primarily driven by more incidents targeting different races or ethnicities (+12) and religions (+10).
Mass shooting at baseball game
Jun. 14th, 2017 09:43 amOutbreak of "American 'flu" at Republican baseball game. The US has about one of these a day; the only remarkable aspects are who the targets were and how the current administration might use this event.
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Shooter appears to have been a 66-yr-old Bernie Bro.
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Shooter appears to have been a 66-yr-old Bernie Bro.